Chapter 3 A Thousand Miles Away

Although his parents were only a vague concept in Yinglong's initial impression, it was not long before his mother, Milan, arrived, and brought his little sister, Yingzhu.

On this day, grandma's house was particularly lively.

Milan happily talked to everyone, and the brothers and sisters who had not seen each other for many years gathered together and chatted very happily.

Northeasterners have a bold and outgoing personality and seem to have endless topics, while southerners are more reserved and generally only say polite words, which is completely different from Northeasterners.

In the small courtyard, Yinglong and Yingzhu play together.

Young-joo is particularly interested in the little stroller, and she rides Young-long's baby cart around the yard in circles.

Xiao Yinglong panted and followed behind, he was a little worried, afraid that Yingzhu would break his baby car, which was an indispensable tool for him to travel, although this made Yingzhu a little dissatisfied, but Yinglong didn't think he was a little stingy.

Yinglong didn't have any impression of Yingzhu, he only heard his grandmother say that this was his little sister, but he didn't understand why there was an extra little sister out of thin air, and it was brought by his mother.

The next day, the family went to the largest park in Shenyang.

Yinglong saw the traffic on the street that he had never seen before, because his family rarely brought him to the bustling city, so he leaned on the car window and watched the bustling crowd and cars with wide eyes.

The long bus, the big shopping mall, he and Yingzhu ate a big crab for the first time, one for each person, Yinglong felt that it was particularly delicious at the moment.

After entering the park, Yinglong saw a clumsy elephant in the zoo.

The elephant slowly moved, waving its long trunk and munching on an apple handed to it by its keeper.

Yinglong wondered why an elephant's trunk was so long, as if no animal he had ever seen had such a long trunk.

Young-joo is also very happy, there is no such a big zoo in her hometown, and she has never seen so many animals before, so she just stares around with big eyes.

In the playground, it is crowded.

The family stopped in front of a merry-go-round, and the grandmother proposed, "Let Yinglong and Yingzhu sit on the merry-go-round!"

Everyone immediately agreed.

But after a while, the second uncle squeezed over with sweat: "Oops! There are too many people in line, and I only grabbed one ticket!"

Grandpa immediately became anxious: "What's going on? There are two children!"

The second uncle hurriedly explained: "I can't buy a ticket at all, and I still refund it from someone else." ”

Grandma hesitated: "Just let Yingzhu sit first! ”

Yinglong was anxious, "What about me, I'm going to sit too!"

At this time, the second uncle came over to comfort him: "Yinglong, you just wait and play, I'll go and see if I can buy tickets!"

Yingzhu sat on the merry-go-round, waving her little arms and laughing loudly, but Yinglong felt aggrieved and felt that she was not like her sister, after all, Yinglong herself had never been on a merry-go-round, but Yingzhu enjoyed special treatment.

He felt very aggrieved, and tears were about to fall.

A few days later, Yinglong's father came on a business trip, just exchanged a few words with everyone, and in less than a day, he said that he would take Yingzhu first.

Because I was too busy at work, I didn't worry about my family, so I could only hurry back home.

He then asked Milan to take Yinglong home as soon as possible.

Yinglong only said that he was taking him home, and he couldn't help but be very happy, because he was about to go back to his own home.

But he didn't know that he would not see his grandfather again for more than ten years.

Yinglong only thought that this was a trip for a trip, and he didn't expect that he would be thousands of miles away.

He hid and busied himself with his little toys and children's books, all in a bag, but he never noticed his grandmother and grandfather, who seemed unhappy.

The next day, the second uncle drove silently and took Yinglong and Milan to the train station, and sent them on the train all the way, and carefully told them something by the window, Milan nodded and agreed to the second uncle from time to time.

Suddenly, Yinglong seemed to notice something different, and looked around: "Where's grandma?"

Milan hugged Yinglong and comforted him in a good voice: "Grandma went shopping, and Mom is here." ”

Then she looked out the window at the crowded passengers, sighed, and silently stared at the noisy platform.

Yinglong looked at his mother's somewhat unfamiliar face, and seemed to be unable to see his mother's appearance clearly, with tears in his eyes.

It wasn't until the train roared and started moving faster and faster that Yinglong felt heavy, but he didn't know what to say, just whispered a few words, and tears flowed down.

"Where's home? Mom. ”

Milan hugged Yinglong and whispered, "This is home, Yinglong." ”

Where will you go? What awaits Yinglong there?

What does home look like, do you have friends and familiar streets with whom you once played?

And, what about my little flower?

Yinglong still can't understand all this, he only knows that he is about to leave this familiar land, and as for when he will see him again, he can't estimate it now.

The train passes through fields and mountains.

The train is still as lively as when it came, the passengers are talking quietly, and the conductor is still playing enthusiastic songs on the radio from time to time, explaining various precautions.

The train stopped at many stations and finally ran on the Yellow River.

Yinglong looked through the car window and saw the Yellow River rolling and flowing outside the window.

The dusk of the river is turbulent and flowing.

Looking at the carriage in front of me passing on the iron bridge, and the raging river below, I couldn't help but feel a little numb in my scalp.

But Yinglong still watched everything curiously, and it was the first time in his life that he had seen such a spectacular sight, which he had only learned about in children's books.

Yinglong had already learned about the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in the literacy picture album given to him by his aunt.

But this is the first time I have seen the Yellow River with my own eyes. I didn't expect the Yellow River to be so spectacular, and the river water was as muddy yellow as my grandmother said in the story.

Suddenly, he saw a man in a white short coat walking by the river embankment with two large buckets on the shore from a distance, and couldn't help but ask his mother curiously: "Can you drink such yellow water?"

Mom looked at Yinglong's little face and smiled: "You can drink it, otherwise?"

When Yinglong heard this, he felt strange, wouldn't he have diarrhea after drinking?

In fact, at this moment, there is a bigger question in his heart: What is the Yangtze River like? When he got on the bus, he heard his mother say that he was going to pass through the Yangtze River this time.

The wheels rolled over the tracks.

I don't know how many stations I have to stop at this time, just like a person's life, I don't know what kind of journey I have to go through, how many people I will meet, and how many people I will leave.

Many people and stories are like the station where the train stops, always meeting and passing by, and ordinary people are not passers-by on the journey of life.

Outside the window, night gradually fell, and the dim lights in the carriage lit up.

Travelers took out their own food and filled their hungry stomachs with boiled water.

Milan also took out a few boiled eggs and Xiaoyinglong that he brought with him when he got into the car, and ate them with warm boiled water

Go, and then she hugged Yinglong and squinted her eyes and rested for a moment.

I don't know how long it took, day or night, the train drove up the Yangtze River Bridge, and the sound of the wheels slowed down

And it became dull, and some people said that the Yangtze River had arrived.

Yinglong woke up and stuck out his little head to look out of the car window.

Outside the window, it was pitch black, except for the lights of the car reflected in the flashing steel bridge

and in the distance, the rolling water flows silently under the bridge.

Yinglong looked at the river outside the window stupidly, his little nose was tightly pressed against the glass, it was almost flattened, and the hot air exhaled made the glass blurry.

After a long while, Yinglong saw the lights of Wanjia on the other side getting closer and closer, and then he knew that the train had crossed the Yangtze River, and the sound of the wheels became soft again, as if he had just driven out of a tunnel.

Yinglong couldn't help but wonder: This is probably the Yangtze River that my mother said! But I haven't had time to see it clearly.

The night became deeper, and Xiao Yinglong couldn't help but feel sleepy, lay on his seat, and fell asleep in a ball.

The train still marched steadily and vigorously along the tracks, rushing kilometer after kilometer towards the boundless land south of the Yangtze River.

At this time, the temperature also increased with the increase of mileage, as if the hot feelings of the land south of the Yangtze River slowly annihilated the whole train.

What kind of place is the south, and what kind of customs and customs are waiting for him?

What will change his life in this vast land, and what kind of mood will he use to face everything?

Everything seems to be shrouded in mystery, but this is only the beginning for Xiao Yinglong.

Yinglong woke up from his sleep, leaning against the car window, untired, this is a long journey he has experienced since he was born, and he was only an ignorant child when he had gone through this part of the road.

Now he knew a little about people, and although he was still very young, he was able to experience this distant journey firsthand.

Where he came from and where he was going, although Xiao Yinglong only had a vague concept in his mind, he could still know that he was going back to the home that originally belonged to him.

He had the impression that this was a city far away from him, but he knew that it was his own home, and maybe no children would mock him for not having parents anymore.

It may be so, he doesn't need to explain anxiously to others in the future, his aunt is his mother, and his third uncle is his father.

Although this excuse has been with him for a few years, now he no longer needs to explain it to others, because he knows that his mother is by his side, and his father has returned to Ben Cheng with his little sister Yingzhu, and a day later, they will be reunited.

Xiao Yinglong looked curiously at his mother beside him, although his face looked a little unfamiliar, but his mother's voice to him was a little familiar and cordial, which made him gradually dispel the doubts that lingered in his heart, and began to try to whisper to his mother, and asked his mother to hand him warm boiled water and a little biscuit to fill his hungry stomach, so that he could continue to enjoy the idyllic landscapes that constantly aroused his curiosity along the way.

In this way, the train roared and whistled through the night to its destination, and when the sky began to shine again, they were approaching the end of the journey, Ben Thuong.

Xiao Yinglong became more and more curious about what Bencheng would be like, where his home was, what was there at home, was it the same as his grandmother's house, was there a white-feathered pheasant and a grapevine? and those familiar streets.

Xiao Yinglong imagined everything quickly in his mind, looked at his mother from time to time, wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask out loud, so he had to turn his eyes out the window, look at the field that flashed backwards quickly, and anxiously waited for the train to stop, so that he could get off the train and step on the calm ground, stretch his arms, and breathe in the fresh air outside.